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BSN 325 Support for Community Health Assessment Assignment

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BSN 325 Community Health Assessment Worksheet

Support for Community Health Assessment

(Need specific data and citations for sources)

 

Data

References

Community Information:

Include:

·       
Location

·       
Type of
community

·       
Describe Geography
& weather

·       
Major
industries

·       
Primary
employers, etc.

·       
Number of schools

·       
Universities

·       
Number and type
of parks

·       
Type of grocery
stores

·       
restaurants
(and type)

·       
Produce markets

·       
Hospitals

·       
Clinics

·       
Public
transportation.

 

 

 

 

Community Demographics:

Include:

·       
Population

·       
Gender distribution

·       
Data for married/single

·       
Elderly

·       
Unemployment rate

·       
Mean income

·       
Number of households

·       
Types of housing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Health Data 1: Chronic Diseases

Collect as much health data as
possible.

Should include at least 5
chronic diseases.   

 

Incidence and prevalence of chronic
diseases

 

·       
Information
needs to be supported by data

·       
You will
determine the most prevalent (3) and copy (with data) to the Top 3 below

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Health Data 2: Infectious Diseases

Collect as much health data as
possible.

Should include at least 5
infectious diseases.

 

Incidence and prevalence of infectious
diseases

 

·       
Information
needs to be supported by data

·       
You will
determine the most prevalent (3) and copy (with data) to the Top 3 below

 

 

 

Health Data 3: Risk Factors

Collect as much health data as
possible

 

Incidence and prevalence of major risk
factors (smoking, alcohol consumption, drug use, teen pregnancy, etc.)

 

·       
Information
needs to be supported by data

·       
You will
determine the most prevalent (3) and copy (with data) to the Top 3 below

 

 

 

Social Data:

·       
Community
sports

·       
Recreation

·       
religious
organizations

·       
spiritual
practices

·       
volunteer
organizations

·       
support
networks

·       
community
partnerships.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Additional Data:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Helpful sources of data:

Center for Disease Control (CDC) (n.d.).    https://www.cdc.gov/publichealthgateway/cha/data.html

Healthy People 2030 (n.d.).   https://www.healthypeople.gov/

United States Census Bureau (n.d.). American factfinder.   https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml

Also, see https://www.countyhealthrankings.org/ and https://www.citydata.org.

 

 

Top Three Chronic Diseases

 (include
data to support decision to identify as most prevalent)

Healthy People 2030 Goal

1)

 

 

2)

 

 

3)

 

 

 

Top Three Infectious Diseases

(include data to support decision
to identify as most prevalent)

Healthy People 2030 Goal

1)

 

 

2)

 

 

3)

 

 

 

Top Three Health Concerns

(include data to support decision
to identify as most prevalent)

1)

 

2)

 

3)

 

 

Priority Community Concern:   ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­_______________________________________________________________________________

·        This must be supported by data and will be the topic of the prevention teaching plan for Worksheet #2.

·        The teaching proposal will be a one stop – one hour class for a target population in the community.

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